{"id":256,"date":"2019-05-18T23:59:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T04:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2019-05-21T09:11:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T14:11:24","slug":"burning-2018-saturday-may-18th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/18\/burning-2018-saturday-may-18th\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning. Well&#8230; not so hot."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/beoning.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-262\"\/><figcaption>Topless frolicking in the Korean countryside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>According to A. A. Dowd, in his review for the A.V. Club &#8220;<em>Burning<\/em> simmers. For nearly two-and-a-half perfectly measured hours, it turns up the heat without boiling over: a drama becoming a thriller in slow motion, intensifying little by little minute by minute, until finally it reaches a shocking, powerful crescendo.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is pretty accurate, and I still love this film, but ultimately it was a poor choice to screen on a Saturday night. I should have chosen something more festive. Oh well&#8230; you can&#8217;t win &#8217;em all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our short this week was a thought-provoking music video <em><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/331815981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The Bully (opens in a new tab)\">The Bully<\/a><\/em>, by Sody, directed by Will and Carly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7282468\/?ref_=ttcrv_crv_tt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"44\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/imdb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to A. A. Dowd, in his review for the A.V. Club &#8220;Burning simmers. For nearly two-and-a-half perfectly measured hours, it turns up the heat without boiling over: a drama becoming a thriller in slow motion, intensifying little by little minute by minute, until finally it reaches a shocking, powerful crescendo.&#8221; This is pretty accurate, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/18\/burning-2018-saturday-may-18th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Burning. Well&#8230; not so hot.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-newscreen-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}